Several Greenpeace activists have stayed at the spot height 718, the site where the radar, part of the U.S.
missile shield, is to be built, since April 28. They say they have built the bridge as a symbol that unites people, unlike the radar. A total of 150 visitors turned up in the protesters' camp in Brdy today and singer Monika Naceva, along with British guitar player Justin Lavash gave a concert there, the Greenpeace campaign head Jan Friedinger said. "We will stay at the spot height, we're preparing further events," he CzechRep, USA to agree on radar treaty in couple of days ...
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Czechs see EU as democratic but ineffective - poll ... said. He said that several mayors of towns situated near the Brdy district visited the protesters today, but no politician, not even deputies for the junior ruling Green Party (SZ) whom the protesters had especially invited to come. In the past days, several MPs for the opposition Social Democrats (CSSD) reportedly visited the protesters. Vaclav Novotny from No to Bases group said that the group's petition against the radar has already been signed by about 100,000 people from all over the country. Greenpeace invite the public to visit the spot height 718 though it is situated in the military district closed to the public, which people are banned to enter without a special permit. Those entering the area do so illegally and could be fined up to 3,000 crowns. All access paths to the "radar site" were sealed by military police patrols today, and the visitors had to go through the forest to reach the protest camp. The Czech centre-right government has been negotiating with the USA about the radar for more than a year now, though a majority of Czechs and the left-wing opposition are against the plan. The two bilateral treaties concerning the radar might be signed in July at the latest, Czech officials said this week. ($1=16.295 crowns)
(Ceske Noviny)
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